"[A] well-made Swedish film....The movie is as blunt as its title." New York Times 3 stars out of 5 -- "An unsettling Swedish drama that follows the brutal clash between school politics and primitive instincts."Ultimate DVD17.55841

Spin (p.102) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he duo redress dollar bin pariahs such as New Age harpist Andreas Vollenweider and prog-pop producer Alan Parsons, nudging them into drunken, warm-bathwater edits like 'Utopia' and 'Pillow Talk'..."Q (Magazine) (p.146) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "'Circus Of Horror' is built around a dirty funk guitar riff and 'Too High To Move' sounds like spaced-out disco..."Clash (magazine) (p.118) - "This is an album custom built for daydreaming....Inspired and at times inspiring..."0.2888357

Entertainment Weekly (6/23/95, p.54) - "...With its unadorned, keyboard-based arrangements, TIGERLILY is more sparely produced than anything Merchant did with 10,000 Maniacs, yet the starkness works in her favor..." - Rating: B+Musician (9/95, p.93) - "...Her new playmates have a far greater stylistic range than the Maniacs, while Merchant conveys more passion and personality than in the past, adding anger and wit to confessionals..."Mojo (Publisher) (7/95, p.110) - "...this debut is ultimately a victory for [Merchant's] voice, her flair for narrative songwriting and that habitual chafing between the sober and the sensual, sense and sensibility."0.239449

Rolling Stone (12/9/99, pp.80-1) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...Merchant takes a joy in performing that's absolutely winning. This disc transmits that joy....The hits and covers showcase the singer's considerable empathy..."Spin (2/00, pp.114-5) - 6 out of 10 - "...brings more purity of essence to her excerpting of 5 nights in Manhattan, hitting every note....Lovely takes on 'Carnival' and 'Ophelia' highlight her ongoing experiment in the toxicity limits of ruefulness..."Entertainment Weekly (11/12/99, p.82) - "...provides a tutorial on what meks a standout performance: different-enough versions of the hits...offbeat covers...and all the spontaneity of performance with none of the self-indulgence..." - Rating: B+Q (1/00, p.120) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...has the same end-of-an-era feel [as her MTV UNPLUGGED album]....Mostly, it's solid, sweetly sung readings of the finest from 1995's splendid TIGERLILY..."CMJ (12/13/99, p.27) - "...features [her] hits 'Wonder' and 'Ophelia,' as well as a few interesting covers....moving renditions of Neil Young's 'After The Goldrush' and David Bowie's 'Space Oddity'..."Mojo (Publisher) (1/00, p.103) - "...The selection is as safe as the format, withy crowd-pleasing covers of David Bowie's 'Space Oddity' and Neil Young's 'After The Goldrush' thrown in for good measure....the playing of her 7-poece band is exemplary..."0.239449

Dirty Linen (12/97-1/98, p.75) - "...There's no Greek rock here, but there's dimotiko ("folk music"), laiko ("pop"), and nissiotiko (the music from the islands)....The singers are all fantastic. Some of Greece's best instrumentalists are backing up the singers..."0.1436694